Agenda

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Thursday April 29th
12:00pm-6:00pm Attendee Pre-Registration
1:00pm-5:00pm Pre Day Events

4 Pillars to Maximize Profitability, Build Business Value & Have Your Business Work for You (George Sierchio)

Friday April 30th
7:30-8:30 Breakfast and Registration
8:30-9:00 Opening Ceremony Cloud Nation (Harry Brelsford)
9:00-10:00 Keynote Speaker
10:00-10:45 Marketplace Expo and AM Break

10:10-10:40 CSB1 The Hybrid Model On-premise Plus Cloud-based Solutions (Sergio Galindo)

10:45-12:15 General Session

BS102 Breaking through Business Plateaus! (Gary Pica)
GS104 Windows 7 in the real world (Susan Bradley, Dana Epp)

12:15-2:15 Marketplace Expo and Lunch
2:15-3:45 General Session

BS105 The 12 Best Referral Systems for Trusted Business Advisor's (Todd Colbeck)
GS101 Alternative Solutions in the SMB Space (Eriq Neale)

3:45-4:30 Marketplace Expo and PM Break
4:30-6:00 General Session

BS104 How to choose a partners (Master MSP/RMM) (David Schafran)
GS108 Hyper-V 101 for Small Businesses (Oliver Sommer)

6:00-9:00 Welcome Reception

Saturday May 1st
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:00-9:30 General Session

BS106 6 Systems Your Business Can't Live Without (George Sierchio)
GS107 Leveraging Windows Home Server in a small business (Kevin Royalty)

9:30-10:15 Marketplace Expo and AM Break
10:15-11:45 General Session

BS107 From (A) to (B): How one IT networking technology consulting firm transformed into a successful VoIPer! (Daniel Williams, Bill Heinz)
GS102 Virtualization for the SMB world (Dana Epp)

11:45-1:15 Marketplace Expo and Lunch
1:15-2:15 Keynote
2:15-3:45 General Session

BS103 Confessions of a Success Partner: Organic Marketing Strategies (Robert Cioffi)
GS105 Disaster Planning in 2010 how it's different now (Jeff Middleton)

3:45-4:30 Marketplace Expo and PM Break
4:30-6:00 General Session

BS108 Partner Spotlight - My Successful Cloud Consultancy (Grant Thompson)
GS103 Backup here, backup there, backup everywhere (Kevin Royalty, Amy Babinchak)

Sunday May 2nd
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:00-9:30 General Session

BS109 SBSC Program Town Hall Meeting (Robert Cioffi, Michael Klein)

9:30-10:00 Am Break
10:00-11:30 General Session
11:30-12:30 Keynote
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 General Session

BS101 Selling IT Services; How not to suck at it! (Stuart Selbst)
GS106 The easy way to make money from Managed Services (Doug Wilson, Joe Cistaro)